leaves tremble,
red-gold-orange spirals
on crisp nights
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Fall Shivers
Tag Archives: trees
Along the River
wind in the birches,
a morning of dappled light
along the river
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First to Melt
the first bare circles,
melted by the warm
hearts of trees
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Behind the Tree Line
some days
the light shines brightest
behind the tree line
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Music in the Trees
I miss shaking a newspaper,
folding it closed, washing
black ink from my fingers,
feeling accomplished before
moving on with my day.
Instead, I hopscotch a crazy-quilt —
CNN. BBC. MSNBC. Fox. Round
and round, site to site and back,
never washing the stain
of sad news from my heart. Continue reading
Green Blooms
despite a stiff wind
green blankets the brown,
in heart-stopping blooms
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Spring’s Threshold
on spring’s threshold,
every plant imagines itself green,
I admire their brown
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Take Me Home, Country Road
Wheels crunching gravel,
we ventured off paved roads
to find our hearts beat
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Spring is Green
Leaves grow on the trees –
the leaves are green!
I see green everywhere.
I like the color green.
The sun is glowing.
Children are looking at the sun –
some children lay down in the sunlight.
Sunlight,
sun bright.
by A. Harsham, age 5
Note: This post is by and for my daughter, Happy 7th Birthday! Long may she weave herself into spring like yarn art on monkey bars.
Also, help me celebrate my daughter’s special Friday with poetry for kids, courtesy of Poetry Friday. Thanks to Teacher Dance for hosting this week!
Here’s what it will seem like to me:
Birthday cake!
Birthday cake!
Bring it now
or I’ll have a cow!
I need it fast —
I might not last!
Once it’s gone,
I’m woebegone.
Presents are fun
until they’re done.
What comes next?
Now I’m vexed.
A whole ‘nother year?
I can’t wait, I fear.
Copyright 2016 Brenda Davis Harsham
Pairs (Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge)
Maple Forest Haiku
Magical leaves dance;
Fallen trees hieroglyphics,
A Termite Pueblo.
Copyright 2013 Brenda Davis Harsham
Fairy Forlorn
Fairy Forlorn was the saddest fairy in Stream by the Wold. She had gotten lost one winter day, and had hibernated by herself all winter long under a mound of earth deep within the moor. In the spring, when the flowers nudged up through the soil, she searched and searched for her kind, but nowhere near Stream by the Wold could she find them. She searched in the trees.
Friendly Fairy Tales 